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A little more than decade ago I came across a prediction I really liked: 80 per cent of the technology we will use in 10 years has not been invented yet. At the time, I thought that a bold statement; surely no other industry could make such a boast...
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The untapped Internet: In March 2001, Toronto financial expert Brendan Caldwell opined: “We haven’t thought of an eighth of the applications we’re going to put on [the Internet].” As the founding of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube...
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The obvious starting point for any smartphone-wielding car lover is a navigation app, but a slew of new software now focuses on everything from measuring fuel economy to live streaming video from a dash-mounted camera. If you like apps and you like...
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Fastest rising
- Chatroulette
- iPad
- World Cup
- Lotto Max
- Vancouver 2010
- Hotmail sign in
- Justin Bieber
- Glee
- Google Translate
- Kijiji Toronto
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Spam decreased 30 per cent in Q4 2010, according to anti-spam vendor Commtouch. The company points to the closure of aptly named Spamit around the end of September as one important factor; it reportedly generated a fair percentage of the world's...
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1 Security demands on cloud service providers will increase. Proof-of-concept attacks against cloud infrastructure and virtualized systems will occur in 2011, and diversity of operating systems at the endpoints will force bad guys to focus on...
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1. Get a smartphone. The world is going mobile and you are being left behind. There is now literally an app for everything, but if you’re working with only a PC, you can’t take advantage of these innovations.
2. Get to know Android...
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Virgin Mobile Canada said more than 1.5 billion texts would be sent between Christmas and New Year’s. Breaking down the numbers, the company said more than 300 million texts would be sent on Christmas Day and 350 million at midnight on New Year...
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AT&T Global Services Canada in December gave US$30,000 to The Little Geeks Foundation, a Toronto-based charity that provides free computing technology and Internet access by collecting, refurbishing and redistributing donated computers to...
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Calling the movement a quiet revolution in TV viewing, DisplaySearch reported that 21 per cent of all TVs shipped in 2010 had Internet connectivity. The growth was led by the Japanese market, driven by domestic brand strategies and by high levels of...
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Kobo tracks e-book passions around the world. (Spoiler: it’s all about Stieg Larsson)
Canada
1 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
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It started with a bang, thanks to the dot-com bomb, and ended with a gentle trickling sound, as Wikileaks spilled thousands of secret cables onto the Internet. The “noughties” have been a wild ride for technology. Here are some of the...
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More than two billion YouTube videos are viewed daily, according to the company. Netflix is now a “streaming company which also offers DVDs by mail,” said CEO Reed Hastings, with a staggering 17 million U.S. subscribers streaming movies. ...
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Cloud computing promises cost savings, more efficient use of IT resources and uncommon flexibility, and those claims have driven it to the top of the buzz list. But at what costs and with what risks? Are Canadian businesses ready to move portions of...
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Your business IT needs are taken care of: you have e-mail, a Web site, applications for document management and everything else you need, right? In fact, there’s a big room full of humming servers and structured cabling to take care of that,...
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It’s rare, but sometimes growth can be too much of a good thing. Steam Whistle Brewing is on track to employ more than 100 people in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Not bad for a company that started with three people and an idea in 2000...
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While both the benefits and the risks of moving IT infrastructure to the cloud have been widely debated, most of the emphasis has been on cost savings and security issues. But a 2010 Forrester Total Economic Impact study has uncovered another key...
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The market is so abuzz with discussion of cloud services it can be difficult to know what will benefit businesses both today and moving forward. However, cloud services are becoming widely adopted by businesses for reasons such as:
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Shopping has come a long way since the 1930s. Cohen Brothers fans will remember the scene in O Brother Where Art Thou in which Ulysses Everett McGill tries to order a part for his Ford automobile (which will take two weeks to arrive) and a tub of...
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Modern medicine has undoubtedly worked miracles when it comes to prolonging life, curing disease and enhancing quality of life. And, however controversial, progress in medicine can often be attributed to advances in technology. So why is it, then,...
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You’ve knocked a couple of items off the to-do list and it’s time for a break. Like many online Canadians you pop over to your favourite social networking site. While skimming updates on your brother-in-law’s virtual farm you ignore...
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It’s time again for our annual look at the year ahead. We polled industry luminaries and asked for their best guesses on what 2011 will bring. Two overall trends emerged from those discussions. First, we noticed the public sector appearing...
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If you’ve ever blogged about a negative customer experience, joined a Facebook group to rail against an insensitive employer or scanned the trending Twitter topics with an eye to seething rage, you know that people love to air their grievances...
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Technology is changing the way we work, live and connect with customers, and this is especially true of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and unified communications. Today’s communications can take advantage of the economics brought by new architecture...
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When bringing wireless connectivity to the staff and students at the University of Ottawa proved a challenge, university CIO Sylvain Chalut partnered with Bell Business Markets to provide the necessary expertise and support. The university wasn&rsquo...
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